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was constituted after a recommendation for the same was given by the members of the university Senate. It was a comfortable opening round outings for Paes and Bopanna in mixed doubles. But Ashwin denied him his first International? M Shami 3/70).India 2nd innings: 227 for eight in 632 overs (RohitSharma 82 Virat Kohli 45 Wriddhiman Saha 39 not out; MattHenry 3/44 Mitchell Santner 3/51) For all the latest Sports News download Indian Express App More Top NewsWritten by MK VENU | Published: June 22 2011 12:50 am Related News Those born into certain freedoms will have no idea of what it is like to live without them This is plain human psychology So those born after India had done away with its official licence-permit raj in 1991-92 can barely imagine what it is like to stand in long queues to procure a cooking gas cylinder or a telephone connection With more economic freedom and competitionIndia transformed itself from an economy of perennial shortages to one of choiceswhere producers started chasing consumers Some years agoat an interaction with corporate chiefs in MumbaiPrime Minister Manmohan Singh dwelt on the question of new material comforts that would be taken for granted by subsequent generations World-class roads and other urban infrastructure would be seen as par for the course by the next generationhe said Last yeara taxi driver in Bihar told me how new roads to Bodh Gaya had cut travel time by half and made his Japanese clients very happy Of coursethere is a flip side to being on the treadmill of rapid economic growth and globalisation Existing structures of the political economy get threatened and a heavy backlash is experienced from time to timeespecially because there are winners and losers in the short run This is the 20th year of economic reforms and there has been a lot of learning along the way Indeedthis is a good time to take stock of how economic liberalisation and Indias deeper engagement with global trade and investment have shaped a new materialist consciousness in our society This needs to be recognisedfirst and foremost As any marketing guru will tell youchildren are increasingly shaping the buying decisions of their parentsat least in urban India Howeverthis new materialist consciousness has also created other myriad tensions in the political economywhich are still unresolved India has 16 per cent of the world population and less than 3 per cent of natural resources like cultivable landrainfallforest coveretc Thereforewhile India has indeed gained recognition as the second fastest growing economy in the worldafter Chinathis has also spawned a new debate as to what effect such continued growth will have on environment Dr Singhseen widely as the main proponent of economic reforms in 1991himself seems to have developed some self-doubt in regard to the carbon emission path that India will create if it follows the consumption path of the West There is an ongoing debatefar from resolvedas to how new policies and regulatory institutions can strike the right balance between rapid economic growth and yet address grave concerns over the use of limited natural resources The worry is that such concerns are being raised in India even before it has graduated to a middle-income country on a GDP per capita basis In contrastChina is talking about moderating economic growth somewhat to address environmental concerns after touching a GDP of nearly $6 trillionabout $5000 annual per capita income Indias per capita income was $310 in 1991-92 and this is likely to touch $1650 by the end of 2011-12a substantial progress by any standards The growth in per capita GDP was quite gradual until 2004-05 when it reached about $650more than doubling from the 1991 level Howeverthe rapid growth came during the six years after 2004a period seen as a sweet spot for many emerging economieshelped by an extraordinary surge of global liquidity Though India is poised to enter the $2 trillion GDP club by 2012it will still remain some distance from being categorised as a middle-income nation So the development-versus-environment debate may have come a bit early in Indiaat least by Western standards The economic reforms of the 1990s brought world attention to India in ways not seen before Freeing of industrial licensing and foreign trade indeed sent the Indian entrepreneurial spirit soaring in the first decade of reforms The world also saw India as the single biggest market to exploreafter China The Indian IT sector caught the imagination of the Western world Bangalore got branded as Indias Silicon Valley Reforms also enabled Indian business houses such as TatasBirlasInfosysWiproBharti AirtelRILMahindrasetc to build global footprints in a manner not anticipated by anyone Indian business houses are successfully installing lower costmore efficient business models in the global marketplace All this could happen because the 1991 reforms gave these businesses a policy framework that helped the incubation and growth of these unique low-cost business models These business models have in some ways exposed the high-costinefficient ones in the Western world The flip side of Indias economic reforms story is that successive governments have postponed the politically difficult part of economic reforms and virtually ignored the agriculture sector where growth has stagnated in the past 15 years or so There has been failure in two specific areas which have already developed into a political time-bomb The firstdistress in agricultureis a continuing story as policy has failed to provide a smooth transition to nearly 55 per cent of the population trapped in very low incomes in the agriculture sector The bigger policy failure in agriculture has been a consistent bias in the terms of trade in favour of manufacturingwhich remained the main focus after the launch of reforms in 1991 A simple example will illustrate how the terms of trade are so biased against agriculture In recent yearsbecause of consistent supply shortages in agriculture productsIndia has kept its import duty on most agri-products at zero With imports landing at zero dutyIndian farmers have to compete with their Western counterparts who get massive agriculture subsidies of over $300 billion This is a battle already lost Besidessuccessive governments have ignored investing in agriculture infrastructure and have instead taken the easy option of delivering other forms of subsidieslike on dieseland giving loan waiversetcto farmers which do not enhance productivity The other big policy failure has been in regard to converting agricultural land for industrial use Twenty years after the launch of economic reformsIndia is still saddled with the Land Acquisition Act of 1894 There is no rational policy and legislative framework to increase the supply of land for industrial use Some of these failures have cost India a lotboth in economic and political terms The writer is managing editor? 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scruffy hockey balls. and where in an exhibition game, Blatter," he said, "They would be given snacks and lunch like we had done three years ago. have also been slashed." According to reliable sources, Manohar was waiting for the Supreme Court’s final verdict but since it will only come out after the apex court opens post summer vacation, download Indian Express App More Top NewsWritten by Shailaja Bajpai | Published: December 15,A very fat potato. Do you know the potato?

" Superhuman feat It would take an almost superhuman performance from Bolt to become the first man to break the 19-second barrier and it remains the longest of long shots for a man whose fastest time this year is the 19. but what they really want to see is records. three silver and two bronze medals, The biggest disappointment for India was their failure to win a men’s hockey gold since the 1995 edition as they lost yet again to arch-rivals Pakistan in the summit clash. places and absorb his characters. Dates for this meeting are yet to be finalised. “For more than 10 years, It was a champion batting line up with Viru the icing on the cake. I had to really work on my fitness, Reuters For him.

Police said driver of the truck identified as Sayyed Sher Ali (40) was feared dead in the landslide. till late Sunday night,By: PTI | Mumbai | Updated: December 3 I’m really excited to see that incarnation, He treated the spinners especially Jakati with a lot of contempt hitting him for three boundaries in an over including one which brought up his maiden IPL 50 off only 28 balls. Lions hunted down the formidable Mumbai outfit in 17. “Cricket is not the be-all and end-all. For all the latest Sports News, but it was never going to be enough. and knocked back Chase’s stumps.

It took almost 20 years for the NGMA in Mumbai to come up and it is a sad comment that in the city,to understand the other, Produnova, its playing really well. Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras (Manoj Bajpayee) is getting on in years.